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each teame The men worked in pairs, one acting as a recorder and the other as

an observer. One pair made a record of all the passes and catches, one pair mode
a spot record of oll the shets taken by players' numbers, and the other pair ree
cerded the remaining matoriale. Data were collected during all the home games on
both the Kansas team and the visiting teamse The technique used in the collection
of these data is the same as described in the first evaluation studye

It will be observed that in the first year only the offensive evaluation
chart was used. In the socond year of the study, 1938-'39, the evaluation tech=
nique was extended to include a defensive rating systen'for both the team and the
individual playerse A new term, "defensive efficiency", is used in the defensivo
rating which is canparable to the first study on the offensive rating, You will
please note that in Table III the term "defensive efficiency" is the result of
the formula: -

total positive defensive evaluation points
sum of positive and negative defensive points

 

We now have a form of study which incorporates the offcnsive and the
defensive rating comparable to the batting and fielding averages in bascballe

It is the convietion of the speaker that research of this type is worth
whilee The accuracy of this study depends upon the efficiency of the recorderse
As stated heretofore, the selcotions were carefully made and the same individuals
performed their tasks in all games, Thorefore, there is evory reason to believe
that the results were very nearly correct, The great benefit accruing to a coach
from this type ef study is that the mistakes made during the game are pointed out,
thus causing the players to be more conscious of theme This chart will enable
the coach to link up the practice period value of executing proper fundamentals
with matched game or competitive situationse

For instance, we teach our players before recciving the ball when going.
down the court never to got closer to the sideline than 8 feet because should that
player fumble the ball when very near the sideline it will go out of bounds and
the player will lose evaluations points; whereas the same ball thrown to him when
he is within 8 feot of the sidcline can properly be recovered for no loss of
evaluation points to the player and to the toame .

Again, in our offensive set up we insist that our offensive players
do not retreat tweward the division line nearer than 8 or 10 feet, because when
the offensive team is forced back collectively by a defensive team, the player
on the offensive team having the ball is in danger of getting "ticd up" if he
were closer to the division line than 8 foot.

Innumerable instances such as the two outlined above are always pre»
senting themselves to the coach, enabling him to forcably teach better funda-—
mentals to his protegese The coach can say « By overcoming certain self-evident
faults you can increase your batting and fielding averagese And in the discussions
that always follow when the players and their coach are huddled around the batting
and fielding average chart in the dressing room the following day these abeve
mentioned points always come out during the "bullfest".